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Leishmaniasis diagnosis in regions where multiple species exist should identify each
species directly in the clinical sample without parasite culturing. The sensitivity of two PCR …

Background Molecular diagnostic tests, notably polymerase chain reaction (PCR), are highly
sensitive test for Leishmania detection, which is especially relevant in chronic cutaneous …

Three PCR assays for diagnosing leishmaniasis were compared and validated against
parasite cultures and microscopic evaluation of stained tissue smears using 92 specimens …

The vectorial competence of the tick Rhipicephalus sanguineus is discussed in relation to
the epidemiology of canine visceral leishmaniasis, taking into account its strict association …

A PCR-RFLP based method was developed to diagnose and identify the Leishmania
species causing American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) in a panel of clinical samples …

Tissue imprints on Giemsa stained slides from dogs were used to investigate the presence
of Leishmania amastigotes by either optical microscopy (OM) or Polymerase chain reaction …

Summary Objective Information on Leishmania species diversity in western Brazilian
Amazon and the clinical picture of human cutaneous leishmaniasis it causes is scarce. We …

Shiraz district in south of Iran is a classical focus of Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) and
previous research has consistently documented the etiologic agent to be Leishmania tropica …

In most low-resource settings, microscopy still is the standard method for diagnosis of
cutaneous leishmaniasis, despite its limited sensitivity. In Ethiopia, the more sensitive …